Thanks Theresa and lindie for your replies.

lindie she is no where near as severe as your brother. your mum sounds like she has done a lot of work with him. at the moment the legs (knees) cannot open out straight - they say she has 35 to 45 degrees on each leg and we want to get to zero degrees. we saw the orthopedic surgeon on fri for her hip and he said we can leave the brace off and now we'll work on straightening out her knees :eek: he talked about traction but the physio that was in with us suggested a type of splint. which sounds much better than traction!

they aren't sure what it is but my nuero said it was focal arthogryposis so who knows. at least the arms are better (not to zero degrees but close) and now we are brace free we can start on the legs.

what treatments did your brother have?